ifr for lsa

[frfly172]

any news on if there has been any change on flying an lea IFR. And is anyone doing it? They keep talking about a change coming soon.

 

[Jim Logajan]

About the only current production Standard airworthiness 2-seat trainer choice is the Diamond DA20, but it comes with a "no IFR" restriction. Now, if you could get Cirrus to put into production the 2-seat trainer they considered a few years ago, that would be really nice, but they decided there wasn't a market for it at the price they'd have to charge and dropped the project.

Just FYI: The AMD Alarus CH2000 is one other 2-seat type certificated utility/normal airplane still in production that is intended for IFR training. (Not LSA.) But it is $190k when IFR equipped:

http://www.newplane.com/amd/amd/products/ch2000.html

So I think that makes two airplanes from Chris Heinz that are 2 seaters that are currently in production that can one can equip and train in for IFR; the other being the AMD 650 LSi which I think is what you were thinking of in your earlier post:

http://newplane.com/650/index.htm